retiredly

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In a retired manner; in solitude or privacy.

Etymologies

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Examples

Charles I: lived poor and retiredly in Wales, but was once or twice more imprisoned: -- moved to Lisburn and in 1660 was made Bishop of Down and Connor, -- with Dromore, where he was buried, in addition.

Insomuch that he tells us, [279] that "few sound parts are left uninfected with this plague of scepticism; [280] that it P. 67, as. this is an universal gangrene; [281] that there are but few that go the way of demonstration, and these are either wearied out, or else live retiredly, or despair of any remedy of these things."

A man incorporates anger by concealing it, as Diogenes told Demosthenes, who, for fear of being seen in a tavern, withdrew himself the more retiredly into it: "The more you retire backward, the farther you enter in."

At the ground they pause some time before they put the body into its grave, that if any there should have anything upon them to exhort the people, they may not be disappointed; and that the relations may the more retiredly and solemnly take the last leave of the body of their departed kindred, and the spectators have a sense of mortality, by the occasion then given them, to reflect upon their own latter end.